another wave of innovation in the space of electricity power generation has been sweeping across the globe. This time, it is in the shape of compact battery within a vehicle. (A battery is installed in an electric Hummer as the US president tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 2021. - AFP)
AT every turn of the century, there will always be ground-breaking innovation that changes the landscape of civilisation. The profound changes while it starts small, will creep silently into our everyday life making it an eventual norm.
When Edison Electric Light Company, backed by renowned financier and banker John Pierpoint Morgan (J P Morgan) and the Vanderbilt family, first introduced to the world to the possibility of electricity power generation for household consumption, to many, it was too good to be true.
